While Sunderland’s manager David Moyes was charged by the FA for telling a female reporter that she ‘might get a slap’

The HMRC began its investigation into dozens of Premier League transfers and fees for players’ agents — its biggest criminal action into football — last year. Officials say it could be expanded further.

In December Manchester United and England captain Wayne Rooney was named in Parliament by Tory MP Charlie Elphicke as one player under suspicion of tax-dodging. He denies wrongdoing.